Selection of Essays by Nobel Prize-winning Novelists

Author: Song Zhaolin (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: Since 1901, the awarding of the Nobel Prize has been considered a "gift left to humanity by an individual for the promotion of human progress and welfare, with the purely idealistic purpose of inspiring others." However, it has long been a mystery how to interpret and execute the will, leading to the claim that "the history of the Nobel Prize in Literature seems to be a history of continuously interpreting a will with ambiguous wording." This puzzle has baffled the world for a century and has also posed challenges to the Swedish Academy for a century. Theoretically, the Literature Prize is awarded to those "who have created the best works with an idealistic in literature." After World War II, the selection of the Nobel Prize in Literature placed greater emphasis on "literary pioneers" and also believed that only a realistic portrayal of the value and dilemmas of human existence could be considered a "historically profound idealistic." To date, there have been 101 Nobel Prize-winning authors; the prize will become a permanent and timeless award. This book collects 85 essays by 58 prize-winning authors. The translators are mostly renowned translators, with many being experts in the study of their respective countries' literatures. Most of the translations are direct translations from the original texts, with only a small number being translated from other languages, making them highly authoritative.